Quotes 761 till 780 of 27817.
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If tolerance, respect and equity permeate family life, they will translate into values that shape societies, nations and the world.
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If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.
Ann Druyan (2011) 354 -
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.
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If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonal experience and the effectual complaints of the people, America would not long retain her rank among the nations.
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If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this; enjoy it but never quite believe it.
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If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.
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If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
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If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
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If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand.
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If you're deaf, dumb, and blind to what's happening in the world, you're under no obligation to do anything. But if you know what's happening and you don't do anything but sit on your ass, then you're nothing but a punk.
Assata: An Autobiography (1987) 222 -
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
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Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who can not, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.
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Implicitly adopting the male life as the norm, they have tried to fashion women out of a masculine cloth. It all goes back to Adam and Eve a story which shows... that if you make a woman out of man, you are bound to get into trouble.
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In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal.
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In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.
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